Messed up people have messed up beginnings. Tanya wasn’t always a mess. She used to be brave, brilliant, Class President every year, and perfectly content with being alone. But one sixth-grade Rank Day in 1998, she discovers nobody likes her, and a darker side of her surfaces—one who would plot, steal, and lie. A fifth […]

A bad breakup followed by a death in the family. Tanya Tolentino starts off her senior year in a rut. To cope, she attempts to rebuild her old band. Chris Umaga, a transfer from San Francisco, auditions to be the new keyboardist and in doing so, he starts to soften Tanya’s hardened heart. Talented, easy […]